Middle East Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. The dominant religion in Israel
  2. 6. A sea bordered by India at the east,Pakistan and Iran to the north,and the Arabian Peninsula to the west
  3. 9. A Middle Eastern country located in between Turkey and Iraq,they've built some dams but the dams in Turkey decreased this country's water amount by 40%
  4. 10. The largest country in the Middle East and is an autocracy/absolute monarchy
  5. 12. A river that starts in Turkey and runs through Syria/Northern Iraq
  6. 13. The dominate religion in the Middle East
  7. 14. A country in the Middle East that's one of the top 10 water scarce countries in the world,and citizens can only get water here twice a week
  8. 15. A country in the Middle East that switched from parliamentary to presidential in 2019,has a total of 22 dams and many important rivers start/flow through here
  9. 17. A gulf located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula and is one of the main ways oil is shipped
  10. 18. A river that starts at the mountains of Lebanon,Israel,and Syria
Down
  1. 1. Not having enough water/water scarcity that not only happens in the Middle East but all around the world
  2. 2. A sea located between north-east Africa and Asia. A good route for ships/toil trains
  3. 4. The process of removing salt/chemicals from salt/sea water (how Saudi Arabia gets most of their fresh water)
  4. 5. A river that flows through Turkey to Iraq and is a valuable source of water
  5. 7. An important passageway for to be shipped and connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea
  6. 8. When pollution(chemicals,pesticides,fertilizers,etc) gets into water (A problem in the Middle East but all around the world as well)
  7. 9. A 3.553 million miles squared desert located in Africa
  8. 10. A man-made canal that connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea
  9. 11. A country in the Middle East that has a parliamentary democracy,the prime minister is Benjamin Netanyahu
  10. 16. A Middle Eastern country located in between Syria and Iran,and the dams in Turkey and Syria decreased this country's water amount by 80%